Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SAYS Kinsey : ‘ What we have seen in newspaper editorials and in political speeches over a period of time , is a latching on to the problem of crime and a series of assertions about the so-called welfare-dependent underclass . |
| 2 | Ten a.m. , 24th July ; just finished breakfast with the mortar team and relaxing for a few minutes over a mug of hot tea discussing the number of casualties after the heavy shelling last night . |
| 3 | Barclays Bank would not divulge its figures despite repeated requests over a period of three weeks . |
| 4 | He said it would change and tone a man in three five-minute sessions over a period of a week . |
| 5 | As an example of the use to which these options were put in deciding the future lines of investigation in the project , it quickly became apparent by computing improved pictures over a range of plant ages and displaying the changes , that the measure of the changes was never likely to be large , and that the changes were not all in one direction . |
| 6 | An agreement would normally embrace a number of interest rate renewal periods of three , six , nine or 12 months over a total of two years . |
| 7 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 8 | Now the Col des Cavales is an important pass to the Pave hut beside its deep blue , ice-infested lake , but it 's loose and nasty in the late afternoon : rusty cables hang from broken bolts over a parody of a path , so without axes we kicked down steep slush and bucket-stepped , slippery ice . |
| 9 | Grassland option : Grass cover of different lengths over a field . |
| 10 | They would shake their empty hands over a barrel lined with tinfoil , from which he could at a later date draw out benison . |
| 11 | Last year 's summer play scheme was the first in the Dyfi Valley and attracted more than 800 children over a period of four weeks to Ysgol Bro Ddyfi . |
| 12 | They approached me one by one with invitations : some drinks over a game of cards ; a night out at the theatre … |
| 13 | He draped his wet clothes over a chair in front of the stove and ladled rice and beans on to two plates . |
| 14 | Through the creation and use of databases in a number of different contexts over a period of time , pupils develop an awareness of the microcomputer as an information handling tool rather than a games machine or programming instrument , while , at the same time , developing valuable learning skills . |
| 15 | The experiments hit the scientific and popular headlines over a number of years before falling into disrepute when others found it quite hard even to train flatworms reliably on this pairing , let alone repeat the later steps in the procedure . |
| 16 | It ran for four separate days over a period of weeks , followed by an exam when all managed to pass . |
| 17 | Neatly arranged opposite is an array of samplers , sequencers , drum machines and keyboards — just to prove there 's more to the man than the jingle-jangle of six strings over a pickup . |
| 18 | Rachaela walked through into the doctor 's room , which was quite large , with netted windows over a garden . |
| 19 | Figure 8 is an example of such a study which recorded and classified accidents over a period of time . |
| 20 | I began to fear that he would fire , and a small sober part of my brain registered just how foolish this confrontation was ; a contest caused solely by two male egos over a girl sworn to celibacy . |
| 21 | What you should look for is evidence of good , consistent results over a period of 10 to 20 years . |
| 22 | We tested six tents over a period of three months in weather ranging from sunshine to horizontal rain . |
| 23 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 24 | In extreme cases , people had gone without fuel for up to eight days over a series of two-week periods . |
| 25 | Ian Wyllie , who studied cuckoos extensively in Cambridgeshire reed-beds , saw it just three times over a period of six years after thousands of hours of observation . |
| 26 | When she and Sir John were married in 1937 , they inherited a large Victorian house with fine views over a park framed by forest trees and the rolling Devon hills beyond . |
| 27 | Twelve hares were roasting on forked twigs over a charcoal fire . |
| 28 | Davies v. Sumner is the leading authority on the meaning of the expression ‘ in the course of a business ’ and has been followed in a case under the Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 , R. & B. Customs Brokers v. United Dominion Trust , where it was held that a business 's buying of two or three cars over a period of five years was an insufficient degree of regularity for the latest such purchase to be regarded as made in the course of the business ( see paragraph 10–18 above . ) |
| 29 | The results of these labours over a period of fifty years were many papers and five influential books , the last two of which were completed by his son . |
| 30 | The Medical Correspondent of the UK Sunday Times reported in May 1990 that the anti-oestrogen drug , tamoxifen , used for several years to treat women actually suffering from breast-cancer , is now to be tested on 30,000 human subjects over a period of five years to assess its potential as a preventative of the disease in healthy women . |